[Hiring] Mid-level and Senior-level Cloud Engineers @Manila Recruitment

Role Description

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will perform cloud and system administration while building, maintaining, and optimizing new and existing cloud-based systems. You will ensure the reliability, security, scalability, and performance of cloud environments, supporting business operations through effective infrastructure management and continuous improvement.

As a Mid-level Cloud Engineer, you will also perform cloud and system administration while building, maintaining, and optimizing new and existing cloud-based systems.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Propose automation/improvements and work with stakeholders to deliver win-win solutions
• Improve the capability and efficiency of the Cloud Engineering team and the company’s wider IT department
• Administer an existing Public Cloud environment – build, deploy and maintain servers (Linux & Windows) and services in AWS
• Manage Puppet controlled infrastructure
• Develop and build new cloud-based systems running in a Public Cloud
• Investigate new cloud technology releases for suitability to improve platform
• Prepare and maintain supporting documentation
• Lead the design and architecture of new cloud solutions, ensuring reliability, security, scalability and cost efficiency
• Support and maintain production systems, acting as escalation point for complex incidents and leading root cause analysis
• Drive security best practice and cost optimisation across the cloud environment
• Mentor and coach the Mid-level Cloud Engineer and other team members
• Act with honesty, integrity, due skill, care and diligence and in the best interest of stakeholders and customers at all times
• Contribute to the company’s customer-focused culture and be accountable for ensuring positive customer outcomes and responsible lending practices are adhered to
• Deal with all legislative and regulatory bodies in an open, constructive and cooperative way
• Identify potential key risk areas and compliance issues; reporting and escalating concerns appropriately
• Take reasonable steps to prevent matters arising that would adversely affect the economic standing or reputation of the organisation

Qualifications

• For Mid-level: At least 3 years of experience
• For Senior Level: At least 5 years of experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or related
• Experience as a cloud engineer or similar; responsible for the following:
• Developing and administering an AWS environment
• Linux Server Administration
• Configuration management (Puppet)
• Experience with infrastructure as Code such as Cloudformation, Terraform, and Serverless
• Experience with scripting languages such as Bash and Linux shell scripts
• Automation experience, including familiarity with tools such as GitHub Actions and similar frameworks
• Familiarity with database technologies such as with AWS RDS and similar AWS-based database services
• Experience administering Web Servers such as nginx or apache
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Strong problem-solving mindset, with an ability to propose solutions, collaborate and get buy in from stakeholders
• Self-motivated with ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Assume responsibility for meeting project timelines
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both oral and written) to build effective working relationships both internal and external to the organisation
• Adopt a thorough approach to developing and testing systems with a high level of attention to detail and quality
• Flexible approach to new challenges and implementing new ideas
• Ability to prioritize tasks and communicating issues for resolution
• Desire to learn new technologies and methods that can improve how we operate

Advantageous Skills/Experience

• Experience with Jira
• Experience with calling AWS APIs
• Experience with the software development technologies, such as:
• Node.JS, Javascript
• Web Services REST/JSON
• API Testing Tools (Postman etc.)
• Experience working with Continuous Integration Pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo, AWS Code Pipeline)